OSF Ventures, the corporate investment arm of OSF HealthCare, is joining other health care systems and strategic investors from within the healthcare industry as a limited partner in Boston-based LRVHealth.  As part of LRVHealth’s collaborative innovation platform, which represents a network that delivers care to 50 million Americans across 25

ThinCats, a fintech lender for mid-sized SMEs, has launched a new GBP100 million funding programme for private equity backed UK businesses. ThinCats has close to GBP1 billion of capital to invest and is seeing increasing demand from private equity backed businesses to fund larger sized deals up to GBP15 million.

WIT Fitness, a London-based sports retail business focusing on training footwear and apparel, has secured a GBP2m investment from growth capital investor VGC Partners. This follows the explosion of global sneaker sales activated by ecommerce, a trend which has also been adopted by the consumer of the ever growing communities

Financial services-focused private equity firm Preservation Capital Partners (Preservation Capital) has completed its strategic investment in US construction-focused MGA Cove Programs (Cove) after receiving all necessary regulatory approvals. Together with insurTech-driven cyber and specialty lines MGA Ascent Underwriting (Ascent), which Preservation Capital acquired an interest in last year, the deal

Packhelp, a Warsaw-based startup that allows users to design and order their own custom-branded packaging, has raised EUR8.5 million in one of the largest Series A rounds in the CEE region.  White Star Capital led the investment, along with the participation of existing investors. The raised capital will be used

innogy Innovation Hub, which is funded by innogy SE, a Germany energy company, to invest in and mentor technology start-ups, invested in 61 companies in 2018 through new and follow-on financing rounds, growing the value of its portfolio by more than 50 per cent.  Including co-investments and investments into other

Laurel Solutions, an affiliate of private equity firm FFL Partners (FFL), has completed the acquisition of Servelec Technologies, a market-leading provider of remote monitoring systems, secure SCADA systems, and business optimisation software providing complete end-to-end automation and optimisation solutions to clients around the world. Terms of the private transaction were

A group of investors including the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Russia-China Investment Fund and a leading Middle Eastern sovereign fund (Group), have completed a deal to acquire a 9.53 per cent stake in Intergeo, a metals and mining company and part of ONEXIM Group.

BGF has invested GBP11.6m in Invenio, a UK-headquartered and global provider of business focussed technology solutions and consulting services, to support the business’s continued growth. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Reading, Invenio provides consulting services and technology solutions for organisations in the media, manufacturing & logistics, and public sector

Therapixel, the AI company winner of the DREAM Digital Mammography challenge, has secured EUR5 million in Series A financing, with Omnes and M Capital Partners joining its existing pool of investors. Sacha Loiseau, Chairman and Founder of Mauna Kea Technologies, has been appointed as independent Board Member and subsequently elected